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Hey guys

Fri, 12/16/2016 - 18:47
Hey guys, I'm 19 years old, and I was first diagnosed with epilepsy when I was about 7, then about three years ago I was told I was epilepsy free. Even since then I've still had absent seizures from time to time, whicheck up until recently is all I'very ever had. In about September, I ended up getting super stressed out at work and had an actual seizure for the first time in my life (well at least one that didn't happen when I was in surgery) and I ended up having there more that week. I think I had nine or ten seizures that week with only two being absent ones, so I talked to my doctor and went back on my old meds. Sometime in October I started randomly collapsing, and haven't stopped. I collapse anywhere from 5-20 times a day, and I can't move anywhere from 10 seconds to 30 minutes after one of them. I've had a bunch of tests done but my neurosurgeon won't see me till I've been back on my meds for long enough because he thinks it may be an epilepsy thing I'm just wondering if anyone else has experianced anything like this before?

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